I just got to looking at the spacers I got and found this one broken. Now, the best thing would to buy a new set but from you experts, could I use JB weld or another epoxy and put this one back together and expect it to work? Don't want to be cheap but if it can work, I'ld want to try.

Watta you think?

 

Gluing phenolic is chancy at best. Experience speaking. Especially under extreme conditions.

Call TVT and ask? Did you get them from TVT?

 

It all depends on whether you're willing to risk your engine for the cost of a replacement spacer.

Personally I wouldn't use JB Weld for anything but making a sculpture, and I'm a welding engineer with absolutely no artistic talents!

 

get a new one

 

Buy new, with all the work involved in getting to where you are do you really want to think about possibly doing it again? Also tyhe possibility of engine/performance failure.

 

If you were to try JB weld it would expand at a far greater rate than the material the phenolic spacer is made from so it may work once, it may work twice but on one of your drives it will fail guaranteed !
Mike

 

Punkin, do not JB weld that. Trash it. Are those LET? Ask Jerry for a new one.

 

and with the other thread about trying to fix a gauge. learn from their experience. send it back and get a new one

 

Ok guys, message received and agreed with. This came from another forum member along with the HE and johnson pump he got from LET. I installed the HE and pump yesterday and have found a leak in the HE on the drivers side. It is at a weld bead point and I can see it leaking. Since I purchased second hand and although unused, I don't feel comfortable with asking the manufacturer for a replacement. It's not the other members fault as he had no idea since it had not been installed. I'll see if I can order the one spacer and will try my artistic talent with JB weld on the pin point leak.

Thanks to all for the sound advice.

 

JB is gookie BUT I used it to repair the oil pan when a pulley got Jiggey and ventilated it, it worked. NO oil stain, totally secure 6 months and a few races......

Chemistry lesson or cooking lesson: your choice.

2. Get a CLEAN wire brush, stiff and brush it (leak site) till it is CLEAN and roughened.

3. Get some new Acetone and wash it twice with a lint free towel.

4. Air dry it and then mix new JB, apply and sorta scrub it in before mounding it up for strength.

5. Test it, you only have 15 psi or so to deal with and if you do a Brian or Woody H/E the pressure should be dramatically less and there for no big thing.

1. If it is a LET H/E, call Jerry, he's a good individual and may take it back for the cost of shipping and weld it for you or just swap it out. I would send the money to buy a new one and have him swap it, returning the balance of the money as a core charge if your is clean and unmodified. THis is numbered as Step 1. , consider it. NO ASK< NO GET

Remember PUNKIN, THIS IS YOUR MONTH !!!!!!!!!!


WOODY

 

LOL...thats a great way to look at it.

 

This will not be news for many, but for those of you that have not worked with Jerry at LET, check this out.

I can't say enough good things about him and his ethic. Now mind you, remember that I purchased my parts from another member and not direct from LET. I e-mailed the "company" on Saturday asking their recomendation as to how to purchase (1) intake spacer, and suggestions on H/E repair. Within 9 minutes (yes, 540 seconds) of the sending of the e-mail, I got a call on my cell phone. It was Jerry and he made good on everything even though he had NO responsibility to do so.

I will do more business with this vendor at every chance.

Greg